I though I would ping pig-user about this to get comments. I put a proposal for builtin date functions I can have ready for Pig 0.8 at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1430
There are so many classes to add a type, given my time constraints I don't see the benefit of a full datetime type over this proposal right now. These functions should be backwards compatible with a full-blown datetime type. Russ
